Director of Career Coaching and Success

Position Overview

Title: Director of Career Coaching and Success

Employee Classification: Dir Exp Learn & Career Success

Campus: University of North Texas - Dallas

Division: DAL-Academic Aff & Stdnt Success

Sub Division-Department: DAL-Strat Partner & Innov

Department: DAL-Ctr Exp Learn & Career Success-500150

Job Location: Dallas

Salary: Commensurate with experience

FTE: 1.000000

Retirement Eligibility: ORP Eligible

The University of North Texas at Dallas is seeking a Director of Career Coaching & Success to provide strategic leadership for career coaching, career education, and student success programming. This role is a senior leader within the Center for Experiential Learning & Career Success (CELCS) and works collaboratively with the Directors of Employer Engagement and Experiential Learning to deliver an integrated, student-centered career development model.

The Director oversees a team that delivers individualized and group coaching, career education, assessments, scalable curricula, and signature programs that prepare undergraduate and graduate students for internships, employment, and graduate/professional study. The ideal candidate brings student-centered leadership, coaching expertise, curriculum design, cross-campus collaboration, and data-informed decision-making.

Master s degree in a Higher Education, Human Resources, Business, Career Services; or related field and five (5) years of professional related experience, or any equivalent combination of education, training and experience.

• Career Development & Student Development:
  Coaching models, developmental advising, motivational interviewing, self-efficacy/strengths-based approaches; NACE competencies and assessment use.
• Labor Market & Employer Trends:
  Regional/national hiring trends, skills taxonomies, emerging roles, WBL/experiential pathways, graduate admissions basics.
• Curriculum & Instructional Design:
  Embedded modules, co-curricular badges/micro-credentials, learning outcomes, and assessment.
• Data & Outcomes:
  Graduate outcomes frameworks (e.g., first-destination), dashboards, evaluation methods, and continuous improvement cycles.
• Coaching & Advising: 1:1 and group coaching; goal setting, accountability plans, graduate school search strategy, personal branding, networking, interview prep.
• Program Design & Scaling:
  Build workshops, classroom integrations, and online modules; operationalize at scale with quality and consistency.
• Leadership & Operations:
  Hiring, training, performance management, SOPs, prioritization, timelines, and resource allocation.
• Partnership & Influence:
  Collaborate with faculty, deans, advising, Student Affairs;
  Align with Employer Engagement and Experiential Learning to create seamless pathways.
• Communication:
  Facilitation, compelling presentations, and storytelling with data; multi-modal content creation.
• Change & Systems Thinking:
  Lead adoption of new tools/processes; connect coaching insights to employer outreach and experiential offerings.
• Cultural Humility & Student-Centered Design:
  Create welcoming spaces; adapt coaching to cultural contexts; design to close various gaps.

• Master’s degree in higher education, counseling, career counseling, business, human resources, or related fields.
• 3+ years of supervisory or leadership experience.
• Experience with career coaching, program development, and career management systems.
• Effective communication, collaboration, and data-informed decision-making skills.
• 5+ years of progressively responsible experience in career services or related fields.
• Familiarity with NACE Career Readiness Competencies and labor market analytics.
• Experience serving ranging, first-generation, or urban student populations.
• Demonstrated success building cross-campus partnerships.

• Develop and execute a cohesive, campus-wide career coaching strategy aligned with UNT Dallas priorities and CELCS’s integrated model.
• Set a strategic vision for career success that improves access, engagement, career readiness, and first-destination outcomes.
• Establish service standards, performance goals, caseload management practices,…